System Restore won't let me restore before Feb. 2008. : Moved from XP by Murray

[evisme217]

I got one of those things that make more than 30 IE browsers pop up almost simultaneously while I browse the internet. I have gotten hit up with a few of those back in the day and I usually did a System Restore. Now that I have this again, my computer won't let me go back to a date before February 4th, 2008. What do I do? Any advice? I am almost desperate to do a full reformat.

I have Windows XP. Laptop, brand name HP Pavilion zv6000.

[Jintan]

A belated welcome to CTH evisme217,

Let's take a look at what all is loaded there.


Please download HijackThis from Here. Then click on the downloaded file to install HijackThis. After it is installed open HijackThis and select Do a system scan and save logfile. Use copy/paste and post that log back here for review.


Also Go Here and download Silent Runners to your desktop. Run it, and post back here the log it creates. If your protective software queries the script, allow it to run. It's not malicious. It will create a file named Startup Programs, and will notify when the scan is complete. Copy the log from the Startup Programs file back here. Here are guidelines for using Silent Runners. You can use separate posts here when replying and posting the log files if needed.